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by bombolo 1112 days ago
Don't you have fire departments in USA?

In Italy they can be called, or just randomly do an inspection and they can just say "this entire building is closed until you adhere to regulations".

I work in sweden now and this doesn't seem to be a thing either. Lots of things that in italy would get you shut down happen here. For example doors requiring 2 hands to be opened from the inside. In Italy they have to be hands free doors.

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they do, thats why I said fire code.

Here they show up, say fix this shit. and come back and check a week or 2 later.

They came by and we moved around the same time.... the inspections are generally scheduled.

It was only that crazy for about 3 weeks. longer and they would have probbably had a different fix.

> the inspections are generally scheduled.

Found your problem right there.

It's usually short notice from what I know but yes... but also you gotta have the person with the keys around to let people in. They still find tons of stuff. They also freak out about dumb stuff like a sheet of paper taped to the window.